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I put my whole life into a single database

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Re: I put my whole life into a single database

#31

I wonder how much time you spend daily on tracking things / data entry

Waiting for a neckband/choker wearable that can take transcription from my vocal cord nerve, so I can operate a chatbot silently. Yes, scientists have made impulse-to-speech lab equipment.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

#32
I had an idea similar to this where you could add information about yourself and answer daily questions and get paid by companies who access this data. This could be an ethical way to share information benefitting all parties.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

#33
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The takeaways at the very bottom of the page are valuable: > Overall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as well as analysing the data, the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time. When I first started building this project 3 years ago, I expected to learn way more surprising and interesting f…

I have built a much more limited version of this that combines my journals, sketches, photos, geolocation etc. I found it useful for noticing patterns in my behaviour and in my irrationality. Journaling helped the most, because recording my feelings means acknowledging them and reviewing them.

Above all, it's just interesting. I enjoy reading about the day-by-day progression of a crush or my brutally honest feelings about a trip that produced stunning pictures. It weaves nuance into my history.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

#35

In my experience, tracking objective things like "nutrition" and "sleep hours" is immensely useful to reflect on what went wrong, and tracking subjective things like "mood" or "stress" is useless given hedonic adaptation or heavy swings that make problems obvious, and not need tracking. What's key is be able to visualize metrics easily on the data and frictionless data entry, I've got a decent setup with iPhone Actio…

I think it's good to track mood swings, because it makes you notice them. After a while it makes you call out your own BS.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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post #33
post #4

The takeaways at the very bottom of the page are valuable: > Overall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as well as analysing the data, the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time. When I first started building this project 3 years ago, I expected to learn way more surprising and interesting f…

I have built a much more limited version of this that combines my journals, sketches, photos, geolocation etc. I found it useful for noticing patterns in my behaviour and in my irrationality. Journaling helped the most, because recording my feelings means acknowledging them and reviewing them. Above all, it's just interesting. I enjoy reading about the day-by-day progression of a crush or my brutally honest feelings…

Yours is qualitatively different because you’re not quantifying your life.

A good thing.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

#38
A simple back of the envelope calculation shows that Felix causes between 70 and 110 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year just from flying.

Paris accord says 1.5t per person per year, from all activities, Felix's flying alonre is ~10-15x current European yearly per person emissions and ~50-75x those compatible with +1.5C.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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post #4

The takeaways at the very bottom of the page are valuable: > Overall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as well as analysing the data, the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time. When I first started building this project 3 years ago, I expected to learn way more surprising and interesting f…

*quantified self
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